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LOUDON SILCOTT, OF MOUNT` VERNON, OHIO.

ROD OR BOLT CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,067, dated October 6, 1896. Application filed February 4,1896. Serial No. 577,993. (No model.)

bolt cutter; and the object of the invention.

is to provide a bolt and rod cutter of great strength and durability that may be operated with perfect ease to cut rods, bolts, wire, ctc., of different sizes or of unequal thickness,with out damage to the tool.

A further object of the inventionis to provide a tool or implement for cutting wire, rods, nails, doc., and particularlyv for cutting screw-bolts oif close up to their nuts, and thus avoid the necessity of filing or otherwise reducing the bolt ends flush with the nuts.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cutter-guard to receive the bolt to be cut, and to shape the surface `of the guard which comes in contact with the nut, so that the bolt end may be cut ott perfectly smooth and flush with the nut.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a novel and ingenious means for adjusting the cutter guard to accommodate bolts and rods of various sizes or dimensions without removing or detaching any part of the tool.

Other objects and advantages peculiar to this tool will be revealed in the specification to follow.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and set up in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, Figure lis an inverted perspective view of my tool in position to receive a bolt or rod, with the handles partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line so Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view taken on the line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top perspective view detached of the cutter coupled to the handles. Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken onthe line .e z, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is an inverted perspective view of one of the rack-plates. Fig. 7 is an inverted perspective view of the cutter-guard, looking at its rear end.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The handles 1, one of which has a stop-lug 2, are provided with an enlarged eccentric head 3, having pivot-holes 4, and a cam project-ion 5 upon the under side half the thick;- ness of the head 3, while in the other half thickness of the head is a semicircu'lar bearing for the cams 6 of the cutter 7. The faces of the cam projections 5 are provided with pins S, which extend through the cutter-cams 6, the handle-heads and cutter-head being of the same thickness, so that they may be flush when assembled, as shown in Fig. 4.

Through the pivot-holes 4 and through the plates 9 extend pivot-bolts 10, connecting these parts together. Each of the said plates have slots 11 and rack-teeth 12 opposite each other and longitudinally between the slots upon their inner face.

Between the plates 9 is housed the rear end of the cutter-guard 13, having holes 14, a longitudinal opening 15 to fit the cutter, and teeth 16 upon each side of said opening and upon both sides of the guard. These teeth are of the same caliber as the rack-teeth of the plates 9, but of greater number, so that the guard 13 can be moved in or out from the plates, which is done by simply loosening the bolts 17, giving a smaller or larger opening,

in accordance with the article to be cut, yet

keeping the teeth of the plates and those of the guard always engaged andlocked together.

Upon the outer end of the cutter-guard is formed a head or stop 18, designed to engage one side of a nut in cutting off bolt ends.

It will be observed that byhaving the handle-heads pivoted to plates locked and bolted to the cutter-guard produces a tool of great value to the trade, since there is no danger of it becoming loose, slipping, or disconnected.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. A tool having the rack-plates secured to the tool-handles, and the toothed cutter-guard adjustably secured to and between. the said plates, as set forth. 1

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2. A tool having the Cutter-guard with a longitudinal opening and provided on its face with teeth upon opposite sides of the said opening, as set forth.

3. The handles having cam proj ections and a semicireular bearing for the cutter-cams, and the pivot-pins formed upon the face of the cam projections, combined with the entter having earns engaged by the said pins, as

set forth.

4. The Combination of the cutter having a portion of its thickness removed, and the handles having a portion of their heads similarly removed, with the cutter-guard having teeth, Aand the rack -plates secured to the 15 handle-heads and to the cutter-guard, as set forth.

In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of Witnesses. LOUDON SILCOTT. iilitnesses:

J. W. MCCARRON, JAMES L. LEONARD, LEWIS B. HoUeK. 

